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Subject: How were people scared of the flood?

I was Nine when i played Halo ce for the first time and i wasn't scared of the flood in the slightest everybody else is like HOLY -blam!- -blam!- I SHAT MY PANTS OH MY GOD I DIDNT PLAY FOR A MONTH AHHH, although thoose are posted by nostalgia whoring -blam!-s who belive that halo ce is the only good game in existence .

  • 10.02.2011 11:03 PM PDT

You were nine when you played CE...You're probably nine right now! Back in 01, Games such as Deadspace or Left 4 dead didn't exist, only thing that was scary was Doom, and the flood made it even worse. It was scary to us. I remember, I was 12 back in 2001, after encountering the flood, I didn't play for another week until my father was with me. Even he was freaked out!

  • 10.02.2011 11:07 PM PDT

ha go on the flood forum and look for the topic The Next Generation of British gaming im in Uni studying visual design and game development so try again.

  • 10.02.2011 11:10 PM PDT

and sorry for not replying on topic in my last post, on topic: The flood just didn't really hit the part of me that was afraid, they just looked like running mushrooms attached to a body. to me anyway ii hope i don't insult anyone (even though i couldn't understand how i could insult anyone.

  • 10.02.2011 11:13 PM PDT

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Helping idiots hate other idiots since people have existed.

Back then, we were never exposed to anything like that. It was scary as heck back then.

Nowadays though, seeing all the blood and gore in media, it's not nearly as scary. It's not scary now because we, as a society, are used to it.

However, in 2001, we had never seen a zombie movie nor anything bloody nor gory. It was a huge shock to us to watch a disgusting, slimy parasite latch itself onto a man's leg, and mutate him into some horrible deformation of nature, because we had never seen anything like it before.

It's like being in the military. It's a huge mental shock to watch someone die for the first time, but soldiers ultimately get more used to death as a daily part of their life.

  • 10.02.2011 11:21 PM PDT

let me literate i was NINE during halo CE plus the infection forms didn't turn people into flood. I think.

  • 10.02.2011 11:23 PM PDT

The Flood never scared me either, I loved them. I thought they were so cool! And I still do

  • 10.02.2011 11:25 PM PDT

Hahaha, obviously some of us can't be as badass as you, OP. When I first met the Flood, it was pretty terrifying, I never watched horror movies as a kid, so it was a real shock.

  • 10.02.2011 11:29 PM PDT

I was probably already fear hardened my dad used to make me watch horror films all the time calling me puff if i didn't

  • 10.02.2011 11:32 PM PDT

Awsomeness in a BOX!!!

I wasn't scared but I was grossed out.

  • 10.02.2011 11:53 PM PDT

"Flag: It's right next to the headlight fluid"

The media now kinda kills your imagination. Even with Halo's blocky graphics (which were cutting edge at the time), it was the idea of being painfully infected by a virus that was creepy. It definitely creeped me out.

  • 10.03.2011 12:12 AM PDT

"Flag: It's right next to the headlight fluid"

Posted by: soulEATER123666
let me literate i was NINE during halo CE plus the infection forms didn't turn people into flood. I think.


Um...have you played CE? YES, MARINES GOT INFECTED!

  • 10.03.2011 12:14 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

It's all about media. I found the Flood terrifying in Halo CE when I first played it because I hadn't been exposed to the level of gore games like Halo and DOOM offered at the time, the scariest thing I'd seen at the age of 9 were the Mysterons in Captain Scarlet (and, to be fair, they were bloody freaky).

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  • 10.03.2011 9:31 AM PDT
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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

I was playing doom when i was 6 with my brothers,i was scared of those monsters especially the cyberdemon.

But the Flood still scared the -blam!- out of me in 2003 when i was 10.

Holy -blam!- that plot twist,the maze of 343GS and the library just killed me.I just stopped playing Halo CE and asked my brother to finish 343GS and the library.I really feared the Flood and hated them...and i missed the covies ,i was praying that they would appear again ,i was so -blam!- happyface when they kicked my ass on the two betrayals but then i was sadface again as both the Flood and sentinels joined the fight too.

The battle of installation 04 was a nightmare for me(in a good way),you really felt that the mighty covenant were beaten by the Flood and it felt for me that the Humans on 04 were scattered lost or dead,you got the feeling that the Flood were unleashed and we couldn't stop 'em anymore,then the death of Keyes and the big climax in the MAW level.And no other game ever gave me that experience like CE did,so i hope Halo 4 will deliver it too.

I salute Bungie for CE.

*waits for CEA*

/End of teh story

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  • 10.03.2011 9:42 AM PDT

Posted by: Commander GX
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If the Flood didn't scare you the first time you see them, regardless of age, then you are not human.

  • 10.03.2011 1:46 PM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

First, lets point some facts out.

The way you talk dosent sound like an 18-20 year old speaking, but rather someone who is much younger and is sadly posing. It is quite obvious that you are exaggerating your age when you played Halo CE.

Second, back in the day, there werent many truly scary games, and those that were, WERE NOT IN FIRST PERSON. Many of us that played Halo CE when we were actually around 9 years old, was the first time we played an FPS or and FPS that had things jumping into your face and came in the hundreds and looked disgusting and scary. We panicked. It was only normal that back in the day the Flood scared the living hell out of us.

Thirdly, Halo CE is my favorite game of all time, but I'm mature enough to know that it is not ''the only good game in existence'' as you put it. There are games that I will openly admit that are better and did more for the gaming industry than Halo, but you can never say Halo CE is not among those elite games.

You sir, are an idiot if your serious about this.

  • 10.03.2011 2:18 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

I don't know. I guess they didn't get enough Resident Evil 2 or House of the Dead. They were all scared at the littlest things. The Flood's never really been scary.

  • 10.03.2011 2:20 PM PDT

"That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Now try how and why."

Horror is subjective. What you laugh at, others might fear on a primal level.

  • 10.03.2011 2:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: homocidalham
Horror is subjective. What you laugh at, others might fear on a primal level.


I agree. It is completely dependent on context, some people find something like Saw scarey (I don't) whereas other people find the Pale Man from Pans Labyrinth terrifying (I most definitely do).

When I first played Halo I knew nothing about the story and I truly did not expect to find the Flood. I thought the game was going to be about escaping the Covenant. When the Flood Combat Forms burst into that room and I fired my giant Assault Rifle at them to no effect I was scared, little did I know that the Pistol was such a beast back then.

The unexpected enemy, the ineffective gun, the unsettling background noise and the cramped space made 343 GS a scarey and amazing experience for me.

  • 10.03.2011 3:08 PM PDT

Oh hey, I don't know why you're reading this, but have fun.

CE's Flood was the scariest thing to go on a video game up to that point. ESRB rated it Mature just because of the Flood.

Personally, when I first played it, and encountered the Flood, I was too terrified to touch the game for another week and a half. My 18 year old cousin refused to touch it for 2 days longer.

  • 10.03.2011 3:13 PM PDT

Well OP... you were probably one of those kids that upped the brightness on your tv to max...

  • 10.03.2011 3:19 PM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

I didn't find them scary. Then again, I also didn't play CE in 2001 when it first came out.

  • 10.03.2011 3:37 PM PDT
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I found the setting of 343GS eerie all the dead elites laying around, the covenant fleeing , then Jenkins' recording, with the music creeped me out.Then the flood broke the doors down.To say the least I was terrified,Then I left that room and the combat forms jumped out at me.All that suspense accumulated into one terrifying encounter.I was never so scared by a video game.I was on edge for the rest of the game.The level was so well done, the combination of the setting and the sudden appearance of the flood created a unforgettable experience.

  • 10.03.2011 4:22 PM PDT

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